What I’d like to know is, if Wright was a manager of this United side, would he play a system with two centre-forwards to drop Romelu Lukaku for Rashford? That doesn’t strike us as very wise because as things stand, Rashford clearly isn’t a better goalscorer than Lukaku.

In the opening week of the season, United beat Leicester 2-1 at Old Trafford and Rashford played 66 minutes. Against Brighton, he got 45 minutes on the pitch but didn’t feature a week later in the 3-0 home defeat to Tottenham.

Rashford has since apologised for his red card by claiming emotions got the better of him.